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Baskaran S, Podagatlapalli A, Sangion A, Wania F. Predicting the Temperature Dependence of the Octanol–Air Partition Ratio: A New Model for Estimating $$\Delta {U^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$. J SOLUTION CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10953-022-01214-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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AbstractThe octanol–air partition ratio (KOA) describes the partitioning of a chemical between air and octanol and is often used to approximate other partitioning phenomena in environmental chemistry (e.g., blood–air, atmospheric particulate matter–air, polyurethane foam-air). Such partitioning processes often occur at environmental temperatures other than 25 °C. Enthalpies $$\Delta {H^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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or internal energies $$\Delta {U^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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of phase transfer are used to express the temperature dependence of the KOA. Existing poly-parameter linear free energy relationships (ppLFERs) for predicting $$\Delta {H^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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were developed using a relatively small dataset. In this work we utilize a recently developed comprehensive KOA database to create and curate a $$\Delta {U^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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dataset containing 195 chemicals and use this dataset in the development of new predictive equations. Using the QSAR development platform QSARINS we evaluate the use of Abraham descriptors, other molecular descriptors, and the log10KOA at 25 °C as variables in different multilinear regression equations for $$\Delta {U^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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. The $$\Delta {U^{ \circ}_{\text{OA}}}$$
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of neutral organic chemicals can be reliably predicted using only the log10KOA (RMSEEXT = 6.86 kJ·mol−1, $${\text{R}^{2} _{\text{adj}}}$$
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Feng Y, Chen XB, Yuan WG, Huang S, Li M, Yang XL. Comparison of the Level of Free Hexafluoro-isopropanol in Adults' Blood and the Incidence of Emergence Agitation After Anesthesia With Different Concentrations of Sevoflurane in Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Clin Ther 2019; 41:2263-2272. [PMID: 31561881 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2019.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of the study is to compare the free hexafluoro-isopropanol (HFIP) concentration in adults' blood and the incidence of emergence agitation (EA) after inhaled different concentrations of sevoflurane. METHODS Sixty adult patients planning to undergo laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery were randomly assigned to 3 groups. Each group received sevoflurane as the volatile anesthetic at different concentrations: 0.5 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC), 1.0 MAC, and 1.5 MAC. The use of sevoflurane was continued until the end of surgery. Venous blood samples were obtained at 30, 60, 120, and 180 minutes after starting the use of sevoflurane and subsequently at 60, 180, and 300 minutes after discontinuation of volatile anesthetic administration. Blood concentrations of sevoflurane and free HFIP were determined using gas chromatography. The recovery time and the incidence of EA at different time points were evaluated among the 3 groups. FINDINGS Changes in the blood concentrations of sevoflurane and free HFIP during and after the use of sevoflurane were similar in all 3 groups. The peak blood concentration of free HFIP occurred 60 minutes after onset of sevoflurane anesthesia in all 3 groups (P < 0.05). The lowest level of free HFIP and the longest recovery time were found in the 1.5-MAC group (P < 0.05). No significant difference was found in the incidence of EA or moderate pain among the 3 groups during recovery. IMPLICATIONS The generation of HFIP would be inhibited when the inhaled sevoflurane concentration increased to 1.5 MAC. However, the incidence of EA during recovery had nothing to do with the inhaled different sevoflurane concentrations (within 1.5 MAC) in adults. ChicCTR.org identifier: ChiCTR-IPD-17011558.
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- Yan Feng
- Department of Anesthesiology, Nanchong Central Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, North Sichuan Medical College (University), Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nanchong Central Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, North Sichuan Medical College (University), Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Nanchong Central Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, North Sichuan Medical College (University), Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
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- Ferenc Zsila
- Biomolecular Self-Assembly Group; Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry; Research Centre for Natural Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 1117 Budapest Hungary
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Shields ZPI, Seybold PG, Murray JS. Anesthetic activity and the electrostatic potential (revisited). J Mol Model 2017; 24:19. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3547-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Kaplan PT, Xu L, Chen B, McGarry KR, Yu S, Wang H, Vicic DA. Mild, Safe, and Versatile Reagents for (CF2)n Transfer and the Construction of Fluoroalkyl-Containing Rings. Organometallics 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/om401016k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Peter T. Kaplan
- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 6 E. Packer
Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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Aranake A, Mashour G, Avidan M. Minimum alveolar concentration: ongoing relevance and clinical utility. Anaesthesia 2013; 68:512-22. [DOI: 10.1111/anae.12168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/24/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- A. Aranake
- Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis; Missouri; USA
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- University of Michigan Medical School; Ann Arbor; Michigan; USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis; Missouri; USA
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Chamberlin AC, Levitt DG, Cramer CJ, Truhlar DG. Modeling free energies of solvation in olive oil. Mol Pharm 2009; 5:1064-79. [PMID: 19434923 DOI: 10.1021/mp800059u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Olive oil partition coefficients are useful for modeling the bioavailability of drug-like compounds. We have recently developed an accurate solvation model called SM8 for aqueous and organic solvents (Marenich, A. V.; Olson, R. M.; Kelly, C. P.; Cramer, C. J.; Truhlar, D. G. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2007, 3, 2011) and a temperature-dependent solvation model called SM8T for aqueous solution (Chamberlin, A. C.; Cramer, C. J.; Truhlar, D. G. J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 3024). Here we describe an extension of SM8T to predict air-olive oil and water-olive oil partitioning for drug-like solutes as functions of temperature. We also describe the database of experimental partition coefficients used to parametrize the model; this database includes 371 entries for 304 compounds spanning the 291-310 K temperature range.
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- Adam C Chamberlin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Azizi K, Safarpour MA, Keykhaee M, Mehdipour AR. DFT-based QSAR study of alkanols and alkanthiols using the conductor-like polarizable continuum model (CPCM). J Mol Model 2009; 15:1509-15. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-009-0512-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2008] [Accepted: 03/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mehdipour A, Safarpour M, Taghavi F, Jamali M. Density Functional Theory-based Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) Study of Alkanol and Alkanthiol Derivatives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200860124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Eger EI, Raines DE, Shafer SL, Hemmings HC, Sonner JM. Is a new paradigm needed to explain how inhaled anesthetics produce immobility? Anesth Analg 2008; 107:832-48. [PMID: 18713892 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318182aedb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A paradox arises from present information concerning the mechanism(s) by which inhaled anesthetics produce immobility in the face of noxious stimulation. Several findings, such as additivity, suggest a common site at which inhaled anesthetics act to produce immobility. However, two decades of focused investigation have not identified a ligand- or voltage-gated channel that alone is sufficient to mediate immobility. Indeed, most putative targets provide minimal or no mediation. For example, opioid, 5-HT3, gamma-aminobutyric acid type A and glutamate receptors, and potassium and calcium channels appear to be irrelevant or play only minor roles. Furthermore, no combination of actions on ligand- or voltage-gated channels seems sufficient. A few plausible targets (e.g., sodium channels) merit further study, but there remains the possibility that immobilization results from a nonspecific mechanism.
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- Edmond I Eger
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0464, USA.
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Abraham MH, Acree WE, Mintz C, Payne S. Effect of anesthetic structure on inhalation anesthesia: implications for the mechanism. J Pharm Sci 2008; 97:2373-84. [PMID: 17847069 DOI: 10.1002/jps.21150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Many previous attempts (e.g., the Meyer-Overton hypothesis) to provide a single set of physical or chemical characteristics that accurately predict anesthetic potency have failed. A finding of a general predictive correlation would support the notion of a unitary theory of narcosis. Using the Abraham solvation parameter model, the minimum alveolar concentration, MAC, of 148 varied anesthetic agents can be fitted to a linear equation in log (1/MAC) with R(2) = 0.985 and a standard deviation, SD = 0.192 log units. Division of the 148 compounds into a training set and a test set shows that log (1/MAC) values can be predicted with no bias and with SD = 0.20 log units. The two main factors that determine MAC values are compound size and compound hydrogen bond acidity, both of which increase anesthetic activity. Shape has little or no effect on anesthetic activity. Our observations support a unitary theory of narcosis by inhalation anesthetics. A two-stage mechanism for inhalation anesthesia accounts for the observed structural effects of anesthetics. In this mechanism, the first main step is transfer of the anesthetic to the site of action, and the second step is interaction of the anesthetic with a receptor(s).
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- Michael H Abraham
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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Sprunger L, Acree W, Abraham M. Mathematical Correlations for Gas‐to‐Olive Oil, Gas‐to‐Saline Solution, and Saline Solution‐to‐Olive Oil Partition Coefficients Based on the Goss Modified Abraham Model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200860003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dupre ML, Broyles JM, Mihic SJ. Effects of a mutation in the TM2-TM3 linker region of the glycine receptor alpha1 subunit on gating and allosteric modulation. Brain Res 2007; 1152:1-9. [PMID: 17434460 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2006] [Revised: 03/07/2007] [Accepted: 03/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Alcohols and volatile anesthetics modulate the function of cys-loop ligand-gated ion channels, binding to a putative site between transmembrane domains two and three. The extracellular linker between these two domains is important in the transduction of the gating signal from the glycine binding site to the channel gate. Although the anesthetic binding site is proposed to be in the same region throughout the cys-loop receptor family, the modulatory effects of these compounds depend on the receptor. A sequence comparison revealed an extra proline in the TM2-TM3 loop of the 5-HT3A receptor (5-HT3AR) that is not found in the glycine receptor (GlyR). We hypothesized that this proline residue could affect the size and orientation of the putative alcohol and anesthetic binding pocket and perhaps explain some of the differences in alcohol and anesthetic effects seen in this family of receptors. A lysine to proline mutation was introduced into the TM2-TM3 linker region at position 281 (K281P) of the alpha1 GlyR. Mutation at this residue did not affect thiol binding to residues in TM2 or TM3 and it does not appear that residue 281 constitutes part of the alcohol binding site. The K281P receptors displayed constitutive activity in the absence of glycine, and unlike wild-type receptors, this channel opening was antagonized by application of either volatile anesthetics or another GlyR modulator, zinc. Our data suggest that the TM2-TM3 extracellular loop plays a role in the transduction of signals generated by allosteric modulators in addition to gating signals that follow glycine binding.
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- Michelle L Dupre
- Section of Neurobiology, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Institutes for Neuroscience and Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712-0159, USA.
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Won A, Oh I, Liao M, Sonner JM, Harris RA, Laster MJ, Brosnan R, Trudell JR, Eger EI. The Minimum Alveolar Anesthetic Concentration of 2-, 3-, and 4-Alcohols and Ketones in Rats: Relevance to Anesthetic Mechanisms. Anesth Analg 2006; 102:1419-26. [PMID: 16632820 DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000204258.00676.98] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The Meyer-Overton hypothesis predicts that anesthetic potency correlates inversely with lipophilicity; e.g., MAC times the olive oil/gas partition coefficient equals a constant of approximately 1.82 +/- 0.56 atm (mean +/- sd) for conventional inhaled anesthetics. MAC is the minimum alveolar concentration of anesthetic required to eliminate movement in response to a noxious stimulus in 50% of subjects. In contrast to conventional inhaled anesthetics, MAC times the olive oil/gas partition coefficient for normal alcohols from methanol through octanol equals a constant one tenth as large as that for conventional inhaled anesthetics. The alcohol (C-OH) group causes a great affinity of alcohols to water, and the C-OH may tether the alcohol at the hydrophobic-hydrophilic interface where anesthetics are thought to act. We hypothesized that the position of the C-OH group determined potency, perhaps by governing the maximum extent to which the acyl portion of the molecule might extend into a hydrophobic phase. Using the same reasoning, we added studies of ketones with similar numbers of carbon atoms between the C=O group and the terminal methyl group. The results for both alcohols and ketones showed the predicted correlation, but the correlation was no better than that with carbon chain length regardless of the placement of the oxygen. The oil/gas partition coefficient predicted potency as well as, or better than, either chain length or oxygen placement. Hydrophilicity, as indicated by the saline/gas partition coefficient, also seemed to influence potency.
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- Albert Won
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0464, USA
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Sewell JC, Sear JW. Determinants of volatile general anesthetic potency: a preliminary three-dimensional pharmacophore for halogenated anesthetics. Anesth Analg 2006; 102:764-71. [PMID: 16492826 DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000195421.46107.d0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We investigated the molecular basis for the immobilizing activity of halogenated volatile anesthetics using comparative molecular field analysis. In vivo potency data (expressed as minimum alveolar concentrations) for 69 structurally diverse anesthetics were obtained from the literature. The drugs were randomly divided into a training set (n = 52) used to derive the activity model and a test set (n = 17) used to independently assess the model's predictive power. The anesthetic structures were aligned so as to maximize their similarity in molecular shape and electrostatic potential to the most potent drug in the group, CF2H-(CF2)3-CH2OH. The conformers and alignments of the anesthetics with maximum similarity (calculated as Carbo indices) were retained and used to derive the comparative molecular field analysis models. The final model explained 94.2% of the variance in the observed activities of the training set compounds. The model showed good predictive capability for both the training set (cross-validated r2 = 0.705) and randomly excluded test set anesthetics (r2 = 0.837). Three-dimensional pharmacophoric maps were derived to identify the spatial distribution of key areas where steric and electrostatic interactions are important in determining immobilizing activity of the halogenated drugs and were compared with our previously published maps obtained for nonhalogenated volatile anesthetics.
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- Jason C Sewell
- Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Roberts MT, Phelan R, Erlichman BS, Pillai RN, Ma L, Lopreato GF, Mihic SJ. Occupancy of a single anesthetic binding pocket is sufficient to enhance glycine receptor function. J Biol Chem 2005; 281:3305-11. [PMID: 16361257 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m502000200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Alcohols and volatile anesthetics enhance the function of inhibitory glycine receptors (GlyRs). This is hypothesized to occur by their binding to a pocket formed between the transmembrane domains of individual alpha1 GlyR subunits. Because GlyRs are pentameric, it follows that each GlyR contains up to five alcohol/anesthetic binding sites, with one in each subunit. We asked how many subunits per pentamer need be bound by drug in order to enhance receptor-mediated currents. A cysteine mutation was introduced at amino acid serine 267 (S267C) in the transmembrane 2 domain as a tool to block GlyR potentiation by some anesthetic drugs and to provide a means for covalent binding by the small, anesthetic-like thiol reagent propyl methanethiosulfonate. Xenopus laevis oocytes were co-injected with various ratios of wild-type (wt) to S267C alpha1 GlyR cDNAs in order to express heteromeric receptors with a range of wt:mutant subunit stoichiometries. The enhancement of GlyR currents by 200 mm ethanol and 1.5 mm chloroform was positively correlated with the number of wt subunits found in heteromeric receptors. Furthermore, currents from oocytes injected with high ratios of wt to S267C cDNAs (up to 200:1) were significantly and irreversibly enhanced following propyl methanethiosulfonate labeling and washout, demonstrating that drug binding to a single subunit in the receptor pentamer is sufficient to induce enhancement of GlyR currents.
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- Michael T Roberts
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Section of Neurobiology, Institutes for Neuroscience and Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Paul A, Wannere CS, Kasalova V, Schleyer PVR, Schaefer HF. The Peculiar Trend of Cyclic Perfluoroalkane Electron Affinities with Increasing Ring Size. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:15457-69. [PMID: 16262410 DOI: 10.1021/ja053310w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The adiabatic electron affinities (AEAs), vertical electron affinities (VEAs), and vertical detachment energies (VDEs) of cyclic perfluoroalkanes, c-C(n)F(2n) (n = 3-7), and their monotrifluoromethyl derivatives were computed using various pure and hybrid density functionals with DZP++ (polarization and diffuse function augmented double-zeta) basis sets. The theoretical AEA of c-C(4)F(8) at KMLYP/DZP++ is 0.70 eV, which exhibits satisfactory agreement with the 0.63 +/- 0.05 eV experimental value. The nonzero-point-corrected AEA of c-C(4)F(8) is predicted to be 0.41 eV at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory, which shows a slight deviation of 0.11 eV from the KMLYP estimated value of 0.52 eV for the same. With the zero-point correction from the MP2/6-311G(d) [Gallup, G. A. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2004, 399, 206] level of theory combined with the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ result, the most reliable estimate of AEA of c-C(4)F(8) is 0.60 eV. c-C(3)F(6)(-), c-C(4)F(8)(-), and c-C(5)F(10)(-) are unusual in preferring planar to near planar ring structures. The ZPE-corrected AEAs of c-C(n)F(2n) increase from n = 3 (0.24 eV) to n = 5 (0.77 eV), but then dramatically fall off to 0.40 eV for both n = 6 and n = 7. All of the other functionals predict the same trend. This is due to a change in the structural preference: C(s)() c-C(6)F(12)(-) and C(1) c-C(7)F(14)(-) are predicted to favor nonplanar rings, each with an exceptionally long C-F bond. (There also is a second, higher energy D3d minimum for C(6)F(12)(-).) The SOMOs as well as the spin density plots of the c-PFA radical anions reveal that the "extra" electron is largely localized on the unique F atoms in the larger n = 6 and n = 7 rings but is delocalized in the multiatom SOMOs of the three- to five-membered ring radical anions. The computed AEAs are much larger than the corresponding VEAs; the latter are not consistent with different functionals. The AEAs are substantially larger when a c-C(n)()F(2)(n)() fluorine is replaced by a -CF(3) group. This behavior is general; PFAs with tertiary C-F bonds have large AEAs. The VDEs for all the anions are substantial, ranging from 1.89 to 3.64 eV at the KMLYP/DZP++ level.
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- Ankan Paul
- Center for Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2525, USA
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Paul A, Wannere CS, Schaefer HF. Do Linear-Chain Perfluoroalkanes Bind an Electron? J Phys Chem A 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0312417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ankan Paul
- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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For many years, the expression "cutoff effect of anesthesia," has been used to denote the failure of the higher alcohols or paraffins to produce anesthesia. As such, it is used to assess the plausibility of specific models, proposed for anesthesia. However, the uses were shown, in many respects, to be problematic. This article augments the notion of the cutoff to fit for all cases in which only some of the molecules in a homologous series are anesthetics. We find that the location of the cutoff points is affected by three free energy quantities: that of the adsorption of the agent to the anesthetic "site" (f(sl,site)), that of the perturbation of the site (f(ll,site)), and that of the evaporation of the agent from its pure condensed phase (Deltamu degrees (evaporation)). This outcome indicates that the cutoff cannot be attributed to a single parameter. In addition, the analyses that attribute the cutoff to the failure of compounds to obey the much-used Meyer-Overton correlation will have to be amended. This article shows that cutoff results can be used to elucidate the structure of a site.
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- Y Katz
- The National Physical Laboratory of Israel, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
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Sonner JM, Antognini JF, Dutton RC, Flood P, Gray AT, Harris RA, Homanics GE, Kendig J, Orser B, Raines DE, Trudell J, Vissel B, Eger EI. Inhaled anesthetics and immobility: mechanisms, mysteries, and minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration. Anesth Analg 2003; 97:718-740. [PMID: 12933393 DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000081063.76651.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Studies using molecular modeling, genetic engineering, neurophysiology/pharmacology, and whole animals have advanced our understanding of where and how inhaled anesthetics act to produce immobility (minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration; MAC) by actions on the spinal cord. Numerous ligand- and voltage-gated channels might plausibly mediate MAC, and specific amino acid sites in certain receptors present likely candidates for mediation. However, in vivo studies to date suggest that several channels or receptors may not be mediators (e.g., gamma-aminobutyric acid A, acetylcholine, potassium, 5-hydroxytryptamine-3, opioids, and alpha(2)-adrenergic), whereas other receptors/channels (e.g., glycine, N-methyl-D-aspartate, and sodium) remain credible candidates.
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- James M Sonner
- *Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California; †Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, Davis, California; ‡Columbia University, New York, New York; §University of Texas, Austin, Texas; ∥University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ¶Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; #University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; **Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and ††Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia
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Borodin O, Smith GD, Bedrov D. A Quantum Chemistry Based Force Field for Perfluoroalkanes and Poly(tetrafluoroethylene). J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp026158i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Oleg Borodin
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, 122 South Central Campus Drive, Room 304, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, 122 South Central Campus Drive, Room 304, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, 122 South Central Campus Drive, Room 304, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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Beckstead MJ, Phelan R, Trudell JR, Bianchini MJ, Mihic SJ. Anesthetic and ethanol effects on spontaneously opening glycine receptor channels. J Neurochem 2002; 82:1343-51. [PMID: 12354281 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2002.01086.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors mediate inhibitory neurotransmission occurring in the brain stem and spinal cord. Alcohols, volatile anesthetics and inhaled drugs of abuse are positive allosteric modulators of glycine receptor function, normally enhancing function only in the presence of glycine. A complication in studying allosteric actions on ligand-gated ion channels is in the dissection of their effects on neurotransmitter binding from their effects on channel opening. Mutation of an aspartate residue at position 97 to arginine in the glycine receptor alpha1 subunit simulated the effects of glycine binding, producing receptors that exhibited tonic channel opening in the absence of neurotransmitter; i.e. these receptors demonstrated a dissociation of channel opening from neurotransmitter binding. In these receptors, ethanol, enflurane, chloroform, halothane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and toluene elicited inward currents in the absence of glycine. We previously identified mutations on ligand-gated ion channels that eliminate ethanol, anesthetic and inhalant actions (such as S267I on alpha1 glycine receptors). The double mutant (D97R and S267I) receptors were both constitutively active and resistant to the enhancing effects of ethanol and enflurane. These data demonstrate that ethanol and volatile anesthetics can affect glycine receptor channel opening independently of their effects on enhancing neurotransmitter binding.
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- Michael J Beckstead
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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Beckstead MJ, Phelan R, Mihic SJ. Antagonism of inhalant and volatile anesthetic enhancement of glycine receptor function. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:24959-64. [PMID: 11346643 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011627200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Recent studies suggest that alcohols, volatile anesthetics, and inhaled drugs of abuse, which enhance gamma-aminobutyric acid, type A, and glycine receptor-activated ion channel function, may share common or overlapping molecular sites of action on these receptors. To investigate this possibility, these compounds were applied singly and in combination to wild-type glycine alpha(1) receptors expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Data obtained from concentration-response curves of the volatile anesthetic enflurane constructed in the presence and absence of ethanol, chloroform, or toluene were consistent with competition for a common binding pocket on these receptors. A mutant glycine receptor, insensitive to the enhancing effects of ethanol but not anesthetics or inhalants, demonstrated antagonism of anesthetic and inhalant effects on this receptor. Although ethanol (25-200 mm) had no effect on its own in this receptor, it was able to inhibit reversibly the enhancing effect of enflurane, toluene, and chloroform in a concentration-dependent manner. These data suggest the existence of overlapping molecular sites of action for ethanol, inhalants, and volatile anesthetics on glycine receptors and illustrate the feasibility of pharmacological antagonism of the effects of volatile anesthetics.
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- M J Beckstead
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Yamakura T, Bertaccini E, Trudell JR, Harris RA. Anesthetics and ion channels: molecular models and sites of action. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 2001; 41:23-51. [PMID: 11264449 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.41.1.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The mechanisms of general anesthesia in the central nervous system are finally yielding to molecular examination. As a result of research during the past several decades, a group of ligand-gated ion channels have emerged as plausible targets for general anesthetics. Molecular biology techniques have greatly accelerated attempts to classify ligand-gated ion channel sensitivity to general anesthetics, and have identified the sites of receptor subunits critical for anesthetic modulation using chimeric and mutated receptors. The experimental data have facilitated the construction of tenable molecular models for anesthetic binding sites, which in turn allows structural predictions to be tested. In vivo significance of a putative anesthetic target can now be examined by targeted gene manipulations in mice. In this review, we summarize from a molecular perspective recent advances in our understanding of mechanisms of action of general anesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels.
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- T Yamakura
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
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Eger EI, Laster MJ. The effect of rigidity, shape, unsaturation, and length on the anesthetic potency of hydrocarbons. Anesth Analg 2001; 92:1477-82. [PMID: 11375829 DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200106000-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We previously hypothesized that anesthesia results from an action on two sites separated by 5 A. The hypothesis relied on the finding that fluorinated alkanes having active anesthetic sites at each end of the molecule produce anesthesia as long as the total number of carbon atoms in their structure does not exceed five (i.e., approximately 5 A), and on the sustaining of the 5-A separation by the rigidity produced by fluorination. In this study, we tested an alternative hypothesis: that the site of action cannot accommodate a rigid compound, particularly a rectilinear compound, having more than five carbon atoms, and that rigidity itself might limit the anesthetic potency of larger compounds. We tested the anesthetic potency of 11 hydrocarbons in which rigidity was increased by unsaturation. In 72 rats exposed to such compounds, we found that unsaturation, rigidity, or both produced by unsaturation either did not change (double bonds) or increased (triple bonds) potency for a given number of carbon atoms. For example, we found that the rectilinear, rigid 2,4-trans-trans-hexadiene was no less potent (minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration [MAC] 0.042 +/- 0.002 atm; mean +/- SD) than the flexible 1,5-hexadiene (0.047 +/- 0.005 atm) or n-hexane (0.0467 +/- 0.0055 atm) and that 3-hexyne was more potent (MAC 0.0146 +/- 0.0014 atm) than n-hexane (MAC 0.0467 +/- 0.0055 atm). We conclude that the site of anesthetic action can accommodate straight rigid structures of up to six carbons in length.
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- E I Eger
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0464, USA.
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Cantor RS. Breaking the Meyer-Overton rule: predicted effects of varying stiffness and interfacial activity on the intrinsic potency of anesthetics. Biophys J 2001; 80:2284-97. [PMID: 11325730 PMCID: PMC1301419 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)76200-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Exceptions to the Meyer-Overton rule are commonly cited as evidence against indirect, membrane-mediated mechanisms of general anesthesia. However, another interpretation is possible within the context of an indirect mechanism in which solubilization of an anesthetic in the membrane causes a redistribution of lateral pressures in the membrane, which in turn shifts the conformational equilibrium of membrane proteins such as ligand-gated ion channels. It is suggested that compounds of different stiffness and interfacial activity have different intrinsic potencies, i.e., they cause widely different redistributions of the pressure profile (and thus different effects on protein conformational equilibria) per unit concentration of the compound in the membrane. Calculations incorporating the greater stiffness of perfluoromethylenic chains and the large interfacial attraction of hydroxyl groups predict the higher intrinsic potency of short alkanols than alkanes, the cutoffs in potency of alkanes and alkanols and the much shorter cutoffs for their perfluorinated analogues. Both effects, increased stiffness and interfacial activity, are present in unsaturated hydrocarbon solutes, and the intrinsic potencies are predicted to depend on the magnitude of both effects and on the number and locations of multiple bonds within the molecule. Most importantly, the intrinsic potencies of polymeric alkanols with regularly spaced hydroxyl groups are predicted to rise with increasing chain length, without cutoff; such molecules should serve to distinguish unambiguously between indirect mechanisms and direct binding mechanisms of anesthesia.
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- R S Cantor
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
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Zhang Y, Trudell JR, Mascia MP, Laster MJ, Gong DH, Harris RA, Eger EI. The anesthetic potencies of alkanethiols for rats: relevance to theories of narcosis. Anesth Analg 2000; 91:1294-9. [PMID: 11049925 DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200011000-00045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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UNLABELLED Meyer and Overton suggested that anesthetic potency correlates inversely with lipophilicity. Thus, MAC times the olive oil/gas partition coefficient equals an approximately constant value of 1.82 +/- 0.56 atm (mean +/- SD). MAC is the minimum alveolar concentration of anesthetic required to eliminate movement in response to a noxious stimulus in 50% of subjects. Although MAC times the olive oil/gas partition coefficient also equals an approximately constant value for normal alkanols from methanol through octanol, the value (0.156 +/- 0.072 atm) is 1/10th that found for conventional anesthetics. We hypothesized that substitution of sulfur for the oxygen in n-alkanols would decrease their saline/gas partition coefficients (i.e., decrease polarity) while sustaining lipid/gas partition coefficients. Further, we hypothesized that these changes would produce products of MAC times olive oil partition coefficients that approximate those of conventional anesthetics. To test these predictions, we measured MAC in rats, and saline and olive oil solubilities for the series H(CH(2))(n)SH, comparing the results with the series H(CH(2))(n)OH for compounds having three to six carbon atoms. As hypothesized, the alkanethiols had similar oil/gas partition coefficients, 1000-fold smaller saline gas partition coefficients, and MAC values 30 times greater than for comparable alkanols. Such findings are consistent with the notion that the greater potency of many alkanols (greater than would be predicted from conventional inhaled anesthetics and the Meyer-Overton hypothesis) results from their greater polarity. IMPLICATIONS The in vivo anesthetic potency of alkanols and alkanethiols correlates with their lipophilicity and hydrophilicity.
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- Y Zhang
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0464, USA
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Krasowski MD, Harrison NL. The actions of ether, alcohol and alkane general anaesthetics on GABAA and glycine receptors and the effects of TM2 and TM3 mutations. Br J Pharmacol 2000; 129:731-43. [PMID: 10683198 PMCID: PMC1571881 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The actions of 13 general anaesthetics (diethyl ether, enflurane, isoflurane, methoxyflurane, sevoflurane, chloral hydrate, trifluoroethanol, tribromoethanol, tert-butanol, chloretone, brometone, trichloroethylene, and alpha-chloralose) were studied on agonist-activated Cl(-) currents at human GABA(A) alpha(2)beta(1), glycine alpha(1), and GABA(C) rho(1) receptors expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells. All 13 anaesthetics enhanced responses to submaximal (EC(20)) concentrations of agonist at GABA(A) and glycine receptors, except alpha-chloralose, which did not enhance responses at the glycine alpha(1) receptor. None of the anaesthetics studied potentiated GABA responses at the GABA(C) rho(1) receptor. Potentiation of submaximal agonist currents by the anaesthetics was studied at GABA(A) and glycine receptors harbouring mutations in putative transmembrane domains 2 and 3 within GABA(A) alpha(2), beta(1), or glycine alpha(1) receptor subunits: GABA(A) alpha(2)(S270I)beta(1), alpha(2)(A291W)beta(1), alpha(2)beta(1)(S265I), and alpha(2)beta(1)(M286W); glycine alpha(1)(S267I) and alpha(1)(A288W). For all anaesthetics studied except alpha-chloralose, at least one of the mutations above abolished drug potentiation of agonist responses at GABA(A) and glycine receptors. alpha-Chloralose produced efficacious direct activation of the GABA(A) alpha(2)beta(1) receptor (a 'GABA-mimetic' effect). The other 12 anaesthetics produced minimal or no direct activation of GABA(A) and glycine receptors. A non-anaesthetic isomer of alpha-chloralose, beta-chloralose, was inactive at GABA(A) and glycine receptors and did not antagonize the actions of alpha-chloralose at GABA(A) receptors. The implications of these findings for the molecular mechanisms of action of general anaesthetics at GABA(A) and glycine receptors are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Alcohols/pharmacology
- Alkanes/pharmacology
- Anesthetics, General/pharmacology
- Anesthetics, Intravenous/pharmacology
- Animals
- Chloralose/pharmacology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Synergism
- Ethers/pharmacology
- GABA-A Receptor Agonists
- GABA-A Receptor Antagonists
- Humans
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Receptors, GABA-A/genetics
- Receptors, GABA-A/physiology
- Receptors, Glycine/agonists
- Receptors, Glycine/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Glycine/genetics
- Receptors, Glycine/physiology
- Xenopus laevis
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- M D Krasowski
- Committee on Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Whitman Laboratory, 915 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois, IL 60637, USA.
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Hau KM, Connell DW, Richardson BJ. Use of partition models in setting health guidelines for volatile organic compounds. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2000; 31:22-9. [PMID: 10715221 DOI: 10.1006/rtph.1999.1357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Partition models based on the octanol-air partition coefficients and associated quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) have been developed to describe the triggering of odor detection, nasal irritation, and narcosis by common volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This study made use of the QSARs developed by Hau and Connell (1998), Indoor Air 8, 23-33) and Hau et al. (1999a, Toxicol. Sci. 47, 93-98; 1999b, Environ. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 7, 159-167) to predict the odor thresholds, nasal pungency thresholds, and anesthetic potency in humans for four groups of VOCs, namely, alkanes, alcohols, ketones, and acetates. The predicted outcomes with their estimated variability were used to evaluate the relevant guidelines on the airborne concentrations of these test groups. Threshold limit values (TLVs) for the test compounds were found to be generally capable of offering adequate protection against nasal pungency and narcosis, except for the higher alcohols (C6-C8) and sec-amyl acetate. The QSARs can also be used to set tentative guidelines for those compounds not having a TLV; values of 5 and 75 ppm were proposed for heptan-1-ol and dibutyl ketone respectively as examples.
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- K M Hau
- Health and Safety Office, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
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Eger EI, Halsey MJ, Harris RA, Koblin DD, Pohorille A, Sewell JC, Sonner JM, Trudell JR. Hypothesis: volatile anesthetics produce immobility by acting on two sites approximately five carbon atoms apart. Anesth Analg 1999; 88:1395-400. [PMID: 10357351 DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199906000-00036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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UNLABELLED All series of volatile and gaseous compounds contain members that can produce anesthesia, as defined by the minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration (MAC) required to produce immobility in response to a noxious stimulus. For unhalogenated n-alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatic compounds, and n-alkanols, potency (1 MAC) increases by two-to threefold with each carbon addition in the series (e.g., ethanol is twice as potent as methanol). Total fluorination (perfluorination) of n-alkanes essentially eliminates anesthetic potency: only CF4 is anesthetic (MAC = 66.5 atm), which indicates that fluorine atoms do not directly influence sites of anesthetic action. Fluorine may enhance the anesthetic action of other moieties, such as the hydrogen atom in CHF3 (MAC = 1.60 atm), but, consistent with the notion that the fluorine atoms do not directly influence sites of anesthetic action, adding -(CF2)n moieties does not further increase potency (e.g., CHF2-CF3 MAC = 1.51 atm). Similarly, adding -(CF2)n moieties to perfluorinated alkanols (CH2OH-[CF2]nF) does not increase potency. However, adding a second terminal hydrogen atom (e.g., CHF2-CHF2 or CH2OH-CHF2) produces series in which the addition of each -CF2- "spacer" in the middle of the molecule increases potency two- to threefold, as in each unhalogenated series. This parallel stops at four or five carbon atom chain lengths. Further increases in chain length (i.e., to CHF2[CF2]4CHF2 or CHF2[CF2]5CH2OH) decrease or abolish potency (i.e., a discontinuity arises). This leads to our hypothesis that the anesthetic moieties (-CHF2 and -CH2OH) interact with two distinct, spatially separate, sites. Both sites must be influenced concurrently to produce a maximal anesthetic (immobility) effect. We propose that the maximal potency (i.e., for CHF2[CF2]2CHF2 and CHF2[CF2]3CH2OH) results when the spacing between the anesthetic moieties most closely matches the distance between the two sites of action. This reasoning suggests that a distance equivalent to a four or five carbon atom chain, approximately 5 A, separates the two sites. IMPLICATIONS Volatile anesthetics may produce immobility by a concurrent action on two sites five carbon atom lengths apart.
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- E I Eger
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0464, USA.
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Ueno S, Trudell JR, Eger EI, Harris RA. Actions of fluorinated alkanols on GABA(A) receptors: relevance to theories of narcosis. Anesth Analg 1999; 88:877-83. [PMID: 10195541 DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199904000-00036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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UNLABELLED Previous work demonstrates that various anesthetics enhance the effect of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and this enhancement has been proposed as an explanation for how anesthetics cause anesthesia. This explanation extends to both fluorinated and unfluorinated alkanols. In the present study, we tested the capacity of fluorinated alkanols to enhance the function of the GABA(A) receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes. CF3CH2OH, CF3(CF2)2CH2OH and CF3(CF2)4CH2OH potentiated GABA(A) receptor function, but CF3(CF2)5CH2OH did not. The degree of potentiation decreased in proportion to the chain length of the alkanols. These findings were not specific for receptors expressed in oocytes, as similar results were obtained with muscimol-stimulated 36Cl- uptake using mouse brain membrane vesicles. Although CF3(CF2)5CH2OH has been reported to enhance the capacity of desflurane to produce immobility in vivo, in our in vitro studies, this compound reduced potentiation of GABA-gated response by anesthetics such as isoflurane, enflurane, and pentobarbital. CHF2(CF2)5CH2OH, which has in vivo anesthetic effects, also failed to potentiate GABA(A) receptor function. These results indicate that the GABA(A) receptor is not the only receptor affected by fluorinated alkanols and that other receptors contribute to the capacity of alkanols to produce immobility. In particular, CF3(CF2)5CH2OH and CF3CH2OH inhibited N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated responses, which raises the possibility that this receptor is important for actions of fluorinated alkanols. IMPLICATIONS We find a consistent parallel between the immobilization produced by fluorinated alkanols and their actions on N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors but do not find a consistent parallel between immobilization and effects on gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors. Thus, we suggest that N-methyl-D-aspartate, but not gamma-aminobutyric acid type A, receptors may mediate the capacity of anesthetics to produce immobilization.
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- S Ueno
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712-1095, USA.
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